David Stern may be stepping away next February, but his quest to make the NBA the dominant global brand for basketball is not going away. Still, he knows how to make a splash and the NBA is going to do that overseas in Stern’s final slate of overseas preseason games.
At the top of the list — Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rockets will travel to play in Taipei, Taiwan on Oct. 13. This is the second NBA preseason game in that nation but this is going to be more like a rock star coming to town — Lin remains very popular in the land of his grandparents.